Lynchcombe Steps

After the trips to Great Breach Wood it was time for Lynchcombe to demonstrate it can serve up its share of silver-washed fritillaries. It did not disappoint.

Lynchcombe – Summer Style

Silver-washed Fritillaries

The silver-washed fritillaries were still flying around the trees and brambles of the central combe. The look-out at the stop of the steep slope into the combe being the best place to watch, and is of course on the route of the Lynchcombe butterfly transect.

Red admirals are easy to forget over the excitement of the silver-washed fritillaries they are easy to spot when their wings are open. Once closed in the depths of a tree or bush they are very hard to find.

Five peacocks almost in as many yards. This is only the first brood of the year and were perfect. They should survive the summer then hibernate over the winter to emerge next spring. In the spring they will lay their eggs to continue the cycle.